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SarahC comments on Leveling IRL - Less Wrong Discussion

33 Post author: cousin_it 05 August 2011 09:35PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 06 August 2011 01:45:18AM *  7 points [-]

I like the idea of "generic" levels because I'd like other people's appraisals of what they think are standard skills of human competence. (For example, it took me a while to realize that fitness is a standard domain of human competence, and that I was being silly by defining myself as "just not into exercise.")

Comment author: handoflixue 06 August 2011 10:04:57PM 1 point [-]

One could easily have a website listing broad categories (Exercise, Puzzles, etc.) and specific challenges within them, without trying to make a handful of metrics to be a "generic level"

Comment author: [deleted] 06 August 2011 11:41:19PM 0 points [-]

I agree with wanting to know what others think of as standard skills of human competence, and non-standard, interesting/useful skills of human competence. But I don't see how needing generic levels follows from that. You can know just as much by having a (strength, stamina, math, chemistry, literature, instrumental music, etc.) level system, and with folks giving suggestions for what would be most useful to accomplish life goals generally, without trying to organize those skills into a "human level 1, human level 2" system.

Comment author: cousin_it 06 August 2011 11:20:30AM 0 points [-]

If you're interested, I propose that we start defining the first level :-)